Hey, it's not just not sleeping. ::rueful grin:: I have the fun of not hitting Delta. Whoot!! That's why I get the good weird drugs. :-p Now I just need to find out if they're still doing surgery tomorrow at the hospital I'm supposed to have my TKR at... 47' of flooding so far in the city. I need more sleep.

@Old MD Girl - unless you were being facetious or making some sort of inside medical joke, I would have to say "Amen, sister!" As a former chronic insomniac, I found a lot of MDs had the attitude of "so what?" when I told them about my inability to sleep. One GP helpfully said, "No one has ever died of insomnia." Yeah, easy for you to say, Mr. 'I get 8 solid hours of sleep per night.' It may be true that no one has ever died of insomnia, but when you are going on day 6 with absolutely no sleep whatsoever (my own personal "best"), you merely wish you were dead.

I agree, #1 seems pretty obvious, but unfortunately it is a cause for heated debate... doctors can't seem to agree that making their residents (and themselves) work continuously for 24-30 hours on an on-call shift may not be a great idea for both doctors and patients.

Here is a timely newspaper headline about Quebec residents pushing for a cap of 16 hour call shifts:

Just tell your patients to stop all mood and mind altering substances, get fresh air and exercise daily. The mind will reset and within 6 months they'll be sleeping like a baby. Sadly, most Americans can't wait 6 minutes for what they want so my idea probably won't work.

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